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Monday, September 15, 2008

Why I LOVE Foodbuzz...

They bought me dinner! And I don't mean just any dinner. They bought me and about 20 of my nearest and dearest Florida food bloggers a really, really nice dinner with cocktails and wine as well!!!

This happened on Saturday night. The planning for this has been a long time coming. I think it was around the middle of June when Jenn the Left Over Queen and I first started talking about getting together with a bunch of other bloggers. About this same time Foodbuzz, being the incredible people that they are implemented a program called Dine on Us that is available to all of their featured publishers!!! We jumped right on it and Jenn took the bull by the horns and pulled this thing all together. We were even fortunate enough to have Ryan from Foodbuzz fly all the way from San Francisco to hang out with us!!!

Jenn was able to get us an incredible private room for dinner at Todd English's Blue Zoo in the Swan and Dolphin Hotel in Orlando. Good thing too...we were really loud. Everyone talking about food and then the food came and boy was it incredible!

This photo here shows the huge difference between the way a photographer sees things and the way the rest of us do. This photo was taken on my camera by Christey from FotoCuisine. The way the light is shining through the wine and causing that incredible shadow on the table. Thanks Christey!!!

What a great night and I really hope we can do it again! You guys are incredible and reaffirmed my theory...food bloggers are some of the best people anywhere!!!

Aaaaaaahhhh I saw you all at Jenn's and now again these awesome dishes and you tell me it's all for free!!!!! Having a good time, good friends and good food for FREE!!!! Foodbuzz people, what about Spain?

It was the Dine on Us program that allowed Hawaii FPs to get together at Tokkuri Tei in Honolulu for sushi last month. We didn't have as many in attendance as you all did but hopefully next year's dinner will be bigger.

Wow - oh - wow...what an amazing evening that must've been. Your pictures are incredible...the attention to detail on those dishes was amazing. I'm a bit embarrassed to ask, but...what are beluga lentils? Certainly nothing to do with the whale, right? (Now I've got that darn Raffi song in my head "Baby beluga in the deep blue sea...")

Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun. The food looks scrumptious! I love Todd English. Haven't been able to drive to LA for the dinners hosted there -- I keep hoping for something not on a Thursday with LA traffic.

Hi Stacey-First I hope you enjoy the potatoes. Second we just got all of the people living in Florida together and got with the Foodbuzz Dine on Us program and finally agreed on a place and price and sent out emails to all involved and they could opt in or not. Ryan was an absolute dream to work with at Foodbuzz!

Hi Bryan-Too bad you couldn't go. We had a bunch more fun!!! Hopefully next time!

Hi Kelly-We actually stayed over night in Orlando. It was a 3 hour drive and had no intentions of driving home after. We rented a great condo with another couple and got to keep the festivities going on longer than they should have!!!

Holy Macaroni!Good on you all!Such affairs in Japan are either organized by expats or limited to small affairs!Here in Shizuoka we are going to have an international Sake Bloggers enjoy a Japanese meal with Shizuoka Sake and Italian wine (I will have to apologize to my family in France!).Four of us only, but our combined blogs at Tokyofoodcast, Urban Sake and Tokyodrikinglass should make for the lack of guests!Anyway, great stuff!I do envy you all!Cheers,Robert-Gilles